"Archer's complex, gorgeous music demands a wider audience." - Peter Marsh (BBC music website)

"Martin was a man at one with the performance, engaging with the laptop like a genuine instrument. Elements of his show were challenging, consciousness shifting, peaceful and reassuring, thoroughly confident with his avant-garde originality." - Freenoise

"Archer was fascinated at all the different musics that were coming into view in the early 1970s, from the directions of Miles Davis to the various dark electronic escapades of certain collectives in deepest Germany. He would also be captivated by the sound of witch-season acoustic guitars in the various twilight folk circles. So many different ingredients, you could make anything happen. All these influences served as the inspiration for many of his Discus releases.." - Julian Cope's Head Heritage

He set up an electronic wash of sound before picking up his sopranino sax and playing a spiralling, intricate blast over various booms and disembodied voices. He followed that with the medieval woodiness of the bass recorder....Archer is possibly the only laptop user who gets out of breath by the end of his set, such is his enthusiasm. He finished with a piece of esoteric dance music, climaxing with Archer on his feet, blasting out an amazing squall of gabbling sax to a Chris Cutler drum loop." - Martin Lilleker in Wire (March 2006)

"With these discs and his other work, Archer has managed to document his unique take on Euro Improv" - Jazz Weekly

"A great achievement, a breakthrough, a quiet gem..... An uncategorisable CD that moves from the echo of one half-recognisable musical language to another; there is always a sense of melody, though often stretches seem apparently abstract; the structures are always focused and seductive" - Chris Cutler, ReR

"Astonishing and profound"- Editorial, Stride

"An intriguing collage of sounds.....quintessentially English" - Duncan Heining, Jazzwise